Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 153, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1998, 6:47 PM CST for Etowah County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 1998, 6:47 PM CST (00:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1998, 7:20 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Etowah County, AL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 1:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 118 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 620 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1655 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 89 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 3, 3:42 PM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
342 PM CST FRI APR 03 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0230 PM OWENS XRDS AL .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/98 MADISON DIME SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED IN OWENS
CROSSROADS.
0243 PM WOODVILLE AL 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/03/98 JACKSON GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED IN WOODVILLE.
0320 PM OMAHA GA TORNADO
04/03/98 STEWART A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON
THE GROUND NEAR THE OMAHA
COMMUNITY.
0327 PM HIGDON AL .88 INCH HAIL
04/03/98 JACKSON NICKEL HAIL WAS REPORTED
IN HIGDON.Local storm report, Apr 3, 3:42 PM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM
342 PM CST FRI APR 03 1998
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0230 PM OWENS XRDS AL .75 INCH HAIL
04/03/98 MADISON DIME SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED IN OWENS
CROSSROADS.
0243 PM WOODVILLE AL 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/03/98 JACKSON GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED IN WOODVILLE.
0320 PM OMAHA GA TORNADO
04/03/98 STEWART A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON
THE GROUND NEAR THE OMAHA
COMMUNITY.
0327 PM HIGDON AL .88 INCH HAIL
04/03/98 JACKSON NICKEL HAIL WAS REPORTED
IN HIGDON.Special weather statement, Apr 3, 5:20 PM CST, 1 hour 27 minutes before
ALZ004>005-014-032345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 520 PM CST FRI APR 3 1998 THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH ALABAMA... LIMESTONE...LAWRENCE...AND WINSTON THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NINE COUNTIES TO THE EAST OF THE CLEARED COUNTIES.
Special weather statement, Apr 3, 5:20 PM CST, 1 hour 27 minutes before
ALZ004>005-014-032345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 520 PM CST FRI APR 3 1998 THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH ALABAMA... LIMESTONE...LAWRENCE...AND WINSTON THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NINE COUNTIES TO THE EAST OF THE CLEARED COUNTIES.
Special weather statement, Apr 3, 5:53 PM CST, 54 minutes before
ALZ006>007-016-040015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 553 PM CST FRI APR 3 1998 THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH ALABAMA... MADISON...MORGAN...AND CULLMAN. THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SIX COUNTIES TO THE EAST OF THE CLEARED COUNTIES.
Special weather statement, Apr 3, 5:53 PM CST, 54 minutes before
ALZ006>007-016-040015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 553 PM CST FRI APR 3 1998 THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH ALABAMA... MADISON...MORGAN...AND CULLMAN. THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SIX COUNTIES TO THE EAST OF THE CLEARED COUNTIES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 6:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 6:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 7:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 7:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 7:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chambers | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 8:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 33 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.